# 1889 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd
* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
* Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes (until 21 January) Alfred George Edwards (from 25 March)
* Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones

## Events

* January – First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.
* 8 February – Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
* 14 February – The first edition of the North Wales Weekly News is published (under the title Weekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood).
* 13 March – Twenty miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
* 1 April – New elected county councils in England and Wales created by the Local Government Act 1888, take up their powers. That for Radnorshire meets in Presteigne.
* June – A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.
* 18 July – Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
* 3 August – Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
* 12 August – The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
* 15 August – Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.
* 26 August – Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
* Approximate date – The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.

## Arts and literature
### Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Brecon
* Chair – Evan Rees, "Y Beibl Cymraeg"
* Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis

### New books

* Owen Morgan Edwards – O'r Bala i Geneva

### Music

* Sir Henry Walford Davies – The Future, for chorus and orchestra

## Sport

* Cricket – Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park.
* Rugby union – Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.

## Births

* 12 January – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
* 22 January – John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)
* 28 January – Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)
* 31 January – Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
* 1 February – John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
* 10 February – Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)
* 28 February – George Jeffreys, Pentecostalist (died 1962)
* 5 May – Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
* 24 June – Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
* 17 July – Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949)
* 5 August – William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
* 10 August – Irene Steer, swimmer (died 1977)
* 21 August – Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)
* 23 October – William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)
* 11 December – Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)

## Deaths

* 21 January – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81
* 27 March – John Bright, Radical politician associated with Llandudno, 77
* 10 April – Kilsby Jones, nonconformist minister, writer and lecturer, 76
* 27 May – George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
* 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44 (in Ireland)
* 17 June – John Hughes, industrialist, 73 (in St Petersburg)
* 26 June – Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
* 28 September – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
* 15 October – Sir Daniel Gooch, railway engineer and politician, 73
* 29 October – Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
* 14 November – James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
* 18 November – Charles Easton Spooner, railway pioneer, 71
* date unknown – G. Phillips Bevan, statistician, geographer and author, 59/60
* probable – Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet